Hear the First Nations Iroquois Creation Account in the First Language Mohawk as read (and then translated, paragraph by paragraph) by First Nations Mohawk wisdom keeper Trina Stacey Ienonhsaka'én:ions!
This sacred story shares a celestial foundation with ancient myths, scriptures and sacred stories given to other cultures around the Earth, on every inhabited continent and island. Kahnawake Business Contribution Foundation president Kyle Delisle and I explore some of these connections in this video from Week 6 of the ongoing workshop exploring the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois First Nations) Creation Story, being held in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory.
At the beginning of this video through about the 0:25:45 mark, Kyle Delisle of the Mohawk First Nations discusses evidence of world-scale cataclysms in our planet's ancient past. Also, beginning at around the 0:17:44 mark in the video, Kyle presents some of his interpretations of the celestial elements in the story.
At about 0:25:45, I explore some of the specific connections to the stars which can be seen in the parts of the Creation Account we heard last week and provide some additional evidence and examples (and in some cases some alternate explanations) to those that Kyle saw and discussed earlier in the video.
This discussion is a continuation of those recorded in the previous weeks of this workshop -- you can go back and see the videos from earlier weeks using these links:
My presentation runs through about the 1:18:09 mark of the video.
At about the 1:18:15 mark, Mohawk wisdom keeper Trina Stacey Ienonhsaka'én:ions leads further discussion and examination of the parts of the sacred Creation Story that we have heard so far. She also presents more of the Creation Account in the Mohawk Language, pausing throughout to translate into English as she proceeds. She is reading an Onondaga version of the Creation Story, in the Mohawk Language. This reading and telling and discussion of the Creation Story runs through about the 2:10:00 mark in the video.
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